diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/arch/sparc64/stand/installboot/installboot.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/arch/sparc64/stand/installboot/installboot.8 | 31 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/sparc64/stand/installboot/installboot.8 b/sys/arch/sparc64/stand/installboot/installboot.8 index 4cc48faf6df..4996efcb050 100644 --- a/sys/arch/sparc64/stand/installboot/installboot.8 +++ b/sys/arch/sparc64/stand/installboot/installboot.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: installboot.8,v 1.10 2010/04/06 06:33:50 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: installboot.8,v 1.11 2012/01/01 16:11:13 jsing Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: installboot.8,v 1.1 1995/09/30 21:32:14 pk Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Paul Kranenburg @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: April 6 2010 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 1 2012 $ .Dt INSTALLBOOT 8 sparc64 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -43,27 +43,26 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm installboot prepares an FFS filesystem partition for boot-strapping from the PROM. -The sparc bootblocks are split into two parts: a small first-stage program that -is written into the superblock area in a partition +The sparc64 boot process is split into two parts: a small first-stage bootblock +that is written into the superblock area of a partition .Po and hence is limited in size to SBSIZE - DEV_BSIZE bytes .Pc , -and a second-stage program that resides in the filesystem proper. -The first-stage program is loaded into memory by the PROM. -After it receives control, it loads the second stage program +and a second-stage boot program that resides in the filesystem proper. +The first-stage bootblock is loaded into memory by the PROM. +After it receives control, it loads the second-stage boot program .Ar ofwboot from the filesystem. The second-stage boot program uses the device driver interface to the PROM and the stand-alone filesystem code in .Dq libsa.a to locate and load the kernel. -The second-stage boot program and the prototype code for the -first-stage bootprogram can be found in -.Pa /usr/mdec/ofwboot -and +The first-stage bootblock and second-stage boot program can be found in .Pa /usr/mdec/bootblk +and +.Pa /usr/mdec/ofwboot respectively. -The second-stage program commonly resides in the root directory as +The second-stage boot program commonly resides in the root directory as .Pa /ofwboot . .Pp The options are as follows: @@ -77,7 +76,7 @@ Verbose mode. The arguments are: .Bl -tag -width ofwboot .It Ar bootblk -the name of the prototype file for the first stage boot program. +the name of the file containing the first-stage bootblock. .It Ar device the name of the raw device in which the first-stage boot program is to be installed. @@ -86,15 +85,15 @@ This should correspond to the block device on which the file system containing is mounted. .El .Sh EXAMPLES -The following commands will install the first-stage bootblocks in the +The following commands will install the first-stage bootblock in the root filesystem .Pq assumed to be mounted on Dq sd0a using the file .Pa /ofwboot -as the second-level boot program: +as the second-stage boot program: .Bd -literal -offset indent # cp /usr/mdec/ofwboot /ofwboot -# /usr/mdec/installboot /usr/mdec/bootblk /dev/rsd0c +# /usr/mdec/installboot /usr/mdec/bootblk sd0a .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr disklabel 8 , |